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The 26-year-old “Shape Of You” singer said he might have had a little too much to drink while the friends were having fun in Japan.

“We’d been out to a dive bar,” he told The Guardian. “He just drank water and I got hammered.”

“Then we went to a golf course, and he lays on the floor and put a golf ball in his mouth and told me to hit it out of his mouth,” he went on. “I was like, ‘F–k, I need to aim this properly,’ and I swung.”

Only with drunk logic would you think that this wouldn’t end terribly. . .

“You know in films when someone gets punched, and you hear that fake sound, like a slap?” Ed added. “But in real life when someone gets punched, you hear that dull thud, a bit sickening? I heard a sound like the last one, and saw his security guard looking at me like, I’d cracked Justin Bieber right in the cheek with a golf club.”

In case you didn’t know, Ed wrote both of Justin‘s songs “Love Yourself” and “Cold Water.” So clearly, there’s no bad blood between the two over this golf club incident.